1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! weathervane arrow with hand-tinted cheeks

with hand-tinted cheeks

as it is wider than it is tall) for drinking tea

This piece was carved of porous whale bone--with grey shell used for the pupils and white walrus ivory for the irises--by Alaskan Inupiat master carver Mark 'Delutak' Tepton

7" x 6 1/2" x 4" t (real hand sized

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! weathervane arrow with hand-tinted cheeksI'm increasingly fond of early paper covered cardboard boxes, all the better with great labels pointing to curious things inside, and this is really a lovely one in pink and yellow and green, produced for Planten's Gelatine Capsules, New York. Even better, the label points to its production for the Exhibition of the American Institute, 1840 a New York entity founded in 1828 to "encourage and promote domestic industry in Agriculture, Commerce,